Lockheart Indigo


Lockheart Indigo is 2020 murder mystery indie video game created by Harmless Games. The player controls Beatris Summers, a private detective has arrived to the grand and wealthy mansion with hundreds of rooms who deceives the rich family into revealing their dark secrets, interrogate one of them who is the real killer.
The game describe the genre as "neo-noir and psychological thriller" and it took inspirations of 8-bit video games with mixing Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance as well as detective films such as Sherlock Holmes and Knives Out. The game released on June 15, 2020 on Itch.io as a freeware, which cannot release yet commercial legally until July 31 due to NCA. The game will release as a commercial game on July 31, 2020 on Steam.

Gameplay

Lockheart Indigo is built on the RPG Maker MV, which is used 8-bit style with mixing Gameboy consoles palette and top-down role-playing games esque. Otherwise, there is no JRPG-systems in the game, which is the player can explore the rooms, obtaining key items, examining testimonials, and activating the new mechanic called the Persuasion System as combat style to interrogate the person.

Synopsis

Development

Lockheart Indigo has started in 2017 using the RPG Maker game engine after creating the prototype Machines That Bleed. Development took three years before Lockheart Indigo released.